Booth for voting-machines.



PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905. G. P.. HARRINGTON, DBG'D I 1:. A. mnmqwum'nxnoumxx. BGOTH FOR VOTING MACHINES.

APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB. 1. 1905.

I ELIZA A. HARRINGTON, OF

No. 806.137. I

IIN TEI) STATE PATENT OFFICE.

LYNDHURS NEW JERSEY, EXE U R'IX OF CHARLES F. HARRINGTON, "DECEASED, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAL VOT- ING MACHINE COMPANY, OF LYNDHURST, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORA- TION NEW JERSEY.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ELIzA- A. HARRINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Lyndhurst, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, executrix of the last will and testament of CHARLES F. HARRINGTON, deceased, late, a

citizen of the United States, declare that the said CHARLES F. HARRINGTON invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Booths for Voting-Machines, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to portable curtainbooths adapted for service with voting-machines, and is especially designed to serve with a machine having a vertical shaft adapted to be partially rotated and again returned by the act of registering a voters choice and conditioning the machine for the next voter. Such amachine is shown and described in anapplication by the same inventor; filed October 10, 1904, Serial-No. 227,800.

The object of the invention is to provide a light portable booth easily set up and removed which shall conceal the voter and machine during his selection of candidates and registration ofhis choice.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described. A

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show a preferred arrangement of the invention Figure 1 is an elevation of a voting-machine within the improved booth, a portion of the curtain being omitted. Fig. 2 is a corresponding plan view. Fig. 3 is an elevation, partlyin vertical section, showing the upper portion of the frame of the booth on a larger scale.

Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views-showing details. Similar letters ofreference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The voting-machine shown is of circular or turret form (marked A) and has a vertical shaft B and operating-lever G, by which the registration, resetting,- and other operations are 7 performed. The machine illustrated in the Specification of Letters Patent. Original application filed October 10,1904, Serial No. 227,800. Divided and this application filed February 1, 1905. Serial No. 243,776.

l BOOTH FOR VOTING-MACHINES.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

For the purposes of this description it is sufficient to state that the voter finds the operating-lever in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. and in order to vote-and condition the machine for the next voter he swings the lever through a semicircular arc and back again,

causing a corresponding half-revolution and mid-length, as shown, and having their ends' each engaged in one of the sockets. S S are links of similar wire hinged to the arms S S at the angles in the latter and having hooks or bent-over portions S engaged in the openings s s, producing, in effect, if properly proportioned, a series of radial horizontal arms and inclined braces. A cord or wire S extends from the outer end of each arm to the next, upon which is hung a curtain S of closely-Woven fabric or other material sulficiently impervious to conceal objects behind it. Excepting the space or opening at S between two adjacent arms the curtain extends completely around andfalls nearly or quite l to the floor.

The machine is preferably placed in the corner of the room or voting-place,.as indicated in Fig. 2, with the opening S 'near the wall'S The voter entering the booth finds the lever Gr conveniently presented and pushes it before him through a half-circle to a stop .(not shown)-on the machine, correspondingly turning the shaft and its attached standard and arms, through a half-revolution, thus bringing'the opening S next to the wall S and into the corner, in which position his movements within the booth in selecting candidates and conditioning the machine to record his choice are concealed. In leaving the booth he reversesthe movement and leaves the opening S 'in the orignal position readyfor a succeeding voter.

The standard S and arms S, with their attached links S and curtain S, are easily put in position on the voting-machine in setting up the booth and may be readily folded and packed for storage when not in use.

Although the booth is especially intended for service with the machine shown, it will be understood that it will serve with other machines and that the several parts and also the sizes and proportions may be varied as required in adapting them to such service.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. In a booth for a voting-machine, a vertically-arranged shaft and means for turning it, a standard carried by such shaft, a frame supported by such standard and turning therewith, a curtain suspended from said frame and having an opening, the said frame and curtain arranged to present said opening for easy ingress when the shaft is in one position, and to carry said opening to an adjacent wall when the shaft is partially rotated, and to return said opening to the original position when said shaft is turned to permit the egress of a voter and condition the booth for a succeeding voter.

2. In a booth for a voting-machine, a vertical shaft and means for turning it, a remow able standard carried by said shaft and forming an extension thereof, a series of sockets on said standard, a flange having a series of apertures at the upper end of said standard, a series of arms having their inner ends received in said sockets, a series of links each hinged to one of said arms and having its free end engaged in one of said apertures, and a curtain suspended from said arms and adapted to move with the latter and said standard and shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ELIZA A. HARRINGTON, Emeeutm'ae of the last will and testament of Charles F. lfm'm'ngton. deceased.

Witnesses:

HARRY C. HARRINGTON, CHARLES R. SEARLE. 

